Yearbook technology lets students, parents personalize

Lots of pictures of your child and it’s great. Just the formal class picture and maybe a glimpse of a cute face at the back of a group and the big book seems a waste.

Yearbook companies are springing up to help avoid disappointment, offering schools and parents a digital way to make the books more personal.

TreeRing, headquartered in California, says it was the first company to offer schools personalized pages in yearbooks. Parents, or the students if they are old enough, can lay out their own pages with photos and text and add them to the standard book.